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This document explains the importance of work according to the Bible. It highlights the virtues of hard work, and the value of earning respect and esteem through work and skill. It provides quotations from Proverbs 6:6-11 and Ephesians 4:28.

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Dignity of Work 6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, The bible sees work or labour as a good and and be wise: worthy thing. Our Creator made us to work 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, and gave us the capacity...

Dignity of Work 6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, The bible sees work or labour as a good and and be wise: worthy thing. Our Creator made us to work 7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, and gave us the capacity to invent, plough and 8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth to organize our energies together. her food in the harvest. The bible condemns laziness and honours hard 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt work. thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding Dignity in humans involves the earning or of the hands to sleep: expectation of personal respect or esteem. To 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, esteem a person or thing is to give them a high and thy want as an armed man. value. Ephesians 4:28 Read Proverbs 6:6-11 and Ephesians 4:28. 28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Proverbs 6:6-11

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